Caveat: The Pizza and Bungee Museum

I had some students in my E1 cohort design their own museums today. It went really interestingly.

One girl designed a pizza museum. It had a giant pizza, a meat section, and a vegetables section. And there was the bungee jump – it wasn’t clear how this related to the pizza.

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Another girl designed a monkey museum. There was a shy monkey, a happy monkey, a crazy monkey.

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A serious boy designed a rather eleborate Goguryeo museum (which he seemed to spell Khoygureo – Goguryeo is the ancient Korean kingdom from before 500 AD). I thought his drawing was the best.

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But the most entertaining museum was the Karma museum. The picture wasn’t very good (below). But the girl didn’t say it was a Karma museum. She just set out to describe it, and over time, one realized that the museum was an exact simulacra of our Karma language school – there was a classroom where you could go and watch the E1 kids studying English, for example. I thought it was a little bit like a Borges story – the idea of a map exactly the size of the thing mapped.

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Caveat: Suck!

pictureThe teacher asked, “What do you think of the Korean hagwon system?”

The student answered, “Suck!”

“Suck? That’s not really a sentence,” the teacher pointed out, ever the stickler for ‘answers in full sentences.’

“It sucks!” the student offered, as a revision on her first answer.

In other news, the doodle at left is the sum total of my notes from the staff meeting on Tuesday.

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